Scrubbing and mopping device.



E. F. BROWNING.

SCRUBBSING AND MOPPINGv DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED F,EB.16, 1915.

1,171,768. Patented Feb.15 ,19 16.

WITNESSES: Q INVENIOR 1 /977 M. M

v #r' i I I 0K 0 4/ ATTORNEY THE COLUMBIA PLAr wGRAPH :01, WASHINGTON,D. C.

UNITED STATES PATENT onnron.

EDNA F. BRO'vVNING, 0F NEW YORK, N. Y.

SCRUIBBING AND MOPPING DEVICE.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Feb 15 1916 Application filedFebruary 16, 1915. Serial No. 8,453. r

of New York, in the county and State of New York, have invented certainnew and useful Improvements in Scrubbing and lVIopping Devices, of whichthe following is a specification.

The invention relates to devices for scrub bing and mopping floors andthe like and also to the wringing of the mopping device.

The various objects and advantages of the invention will be set forth inpart hereinafter and in part will be obvious herefrom.

The invention consists in the novel parts, combinations and improvementsherein shown and described.

The accompanying drawings, herein referred to and constituting a parthereof, illustrate one embodiment of the invention and together with thedescription serve to explain the principles thereof.

Of the drawings: Figure l is a central longitudinal section through thedevice substantially on the line A-B of Fig. 3; Fig. 2 is a centralsection, at right angles to their position in Fig. 1 of the mop holdingand moving mechanism; Fig. 3 is a bottom plan of the device; Fig. 4 is adetail of the spring mounting for the rollers; Fig. 5'is a fragmentarydetail of the mop holding device in closed position; and Fig. 6 is asimilar view to Fig. 5 but showing the device open.

Referring by way of example to the exemplified embodiment of thedrawings, the scrubbing device is shown with a back 1 and with bristles2, embedded therein in the usual manner. The device is centrallyapertured at 3 and through this aperture a sponge or other moistureabsorbing instrumentality is projected and retracted. Mounted in thespace or aperture 3 are the wringing means comprising in the embodiedform cooperating spring pressed rollers 4 and 5. The rollers 4 and 5 arejournaled in supporting bracket plates 6 and 7, which plates are angledand are firmly attached to the back 1 of the scrubbing brush by suitablemeans such as screws 8 and 9. In the downwardly projecting verticalportions 10 and 11, respectively, of the plates 8 and 9 are the bearingsfor the rollers 4 and 5. As embodied, the pintles 12 and 13 of theroller 5 are mounted in stationary bearings in the plates 10 and 11,while the roller 4 is yieldingly mounted so as to produce or effect thedie 26. At its lower end the rod 29 proper yielding wringing orsqueezing acin the plates 10 and 11, respectively, and are acted upon bysuitable spring means. In the embodied form of such spring means areemployed spiral springs 18 and 19 under.

tension and engaging respectively the pintles 14' and 15, and alsoengaging pins 20 and 21 fixed to the plates 10 and 11. Thus the rollers4 and 5 are yieldingly impelled toward each other to provide therequisite wringing pressure upon the sponge as it passes therethrough.

A suitable handle is provided for the device, and in accordance with onefeature of the invention the handleis detachable and also is pivotallyconnected to the brush. As embodied lugs or ears 22 and 23 are formed,respectively, upon. the plates 6 and 7, and are apertured to curved endsof a bail 24-. At its central part the bail 24 has an internally screwthreaded socket 25 into which the handle 26 is screwed.

In the embodied form of means for holding the sponge and drawing itthrough the rollers, a grip or other holding device 27 is receive thehooked or slidable along the handle 26, and has connected thereto bysuitable means as a pin 28, a rod 29, which rod extends longitudinallywithin an internal aperture of the hanhas jaws 30 for receiving andholdingthe sponge 31. The jaws 30 may be of suitable form, but arepreferably of spring metal bent and shaped to have the requisite springaction and to provide suitable gripping jaws for the sponge. The jawplates 32 and 33 are pressed together by suitable means such as a wingbolt 40 passing through an aperture 34 in the jaw plate 32 and havingscrew threaded engagement as at 35 with the jaw plate 33. i

Means are provided in accordance with other pintle of the roller 4 thuspushing the roller away in parallel relation to the fixed rollers.

It will be understood that the device is of very simple, substantial andeconomical structure with an arrangement and constructionof partsadapted to withstand heavy usage, and the action of moisture. It will beunderstood also that the device is rapidly and easily operable, and thatthe wringing is provided by the pulling action along the handle and maybe effected without stooping from an erect or nearly erect position.

The invention is not limited to the specific constructions shown in theexemplified embodiments, but changes may be made therein within thescope of the accompanying claims, without departing from the principlesof the invention or sacrificing its chief advantages.

What I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent isl. A scrubber and mopper including in combination an internallyapertured scrubbing brush, a handle therefor, wringing means mounted on.the brush, a mapper, and means mounted on said handle for moving themopper through the wringing means.

2. A- scrubber and mopper includingin combination an internallyapertured scrubbing brush, a handle therefor, wringing rollers mountedon said brush, and spring pressed together, and means for drawlnga.

mopper between said wringing rollers.

3; A scrubber and .mopper in'cludingfin combination an internallyaperturedscrubbing brush, a handle therefor, wringing rollmopper betweensaid wringing rollers and the spring pressure.

In testimony whereof, I have signed my.

name to this specification, inthe presence of two subscribing witnesses.

EDNA F. BROWNING;

Witnesses LULU B. WVILDMAK,

HARD GOLDSCHMIDT.

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